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Did snopes debunk itself?

Too much to get into, but why not have wnd.com as judge of fake news?

Never heard of it before but it appears to be a news site, rather than a fact checking site.

Do you understand the difference? Is that why you said snopes 'sucked it up' by covering the youtube prankster story? because you thought it was reporting the story?
 

Milton Platt

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"Facebook 'fact checker' who will arbitrate on 'fake news' is accused of defrauding website to pay for prostitutes - and its staff includes an escort-porn star and 'Vice Vixen domme'"
  • Facebook has announced plans to check for 'fake news' using a series of organizations to assess whether stories are true
  • One of them is a website called Snopes.com which claims to be one of the web's 'essential resources' and 'painstaking, scholarly and reliable'
  • It was founded by husband-and-wife Barbara and David Mikkelson, who used a letterhead claiming they were a non-existent society to start their research
  • Now they are divorced - with Barbara claiming in legal documents he embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on 'himself and prostitutes'
  • In a lengthy and bitter legal dispute he is claiming to be underpaid and demanding 'industry standard' or at least $360,000 a year
  • The two also dispute what are basic facts of their case - despite Snopes.com saying its 'ownership' is committed to 'accuracy and impartiality'
  • Snopes.com founder David Mikkelson's new wife Elyssa Young is employed by the website as an administrator
  • She has worked as an escort and porn actress and despite claims website is non-political ran as a Libertarian for Congress on a 'Dump Bush' platform
  • Its main 'fact checker' is Kimberly LaCapria, whose blog 'ViceVixen' says she is in touch with her 'domme side' and has posted on Snopes.com while smoking pot
Facebook 'fact checker' Snopes.com accused of defrauding website to pay for prostitutes | Daily Mail Online

How does the fact that at some previous time she ran for political office indicate that the website is political in nature?
 

james bond

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Never heard of it before but it appears to be a news site, rather than a fact checking site.

Do you understand the difference? Is that why you said snopes 'sucked it up' by covering the youtube prankster story? because you thought it was reporting the story?

WND was a news site that was faked news by worldnewsdailyreport.com which is like fake news The Onion.

snopes has always been a liberal website, with dubious staff so they need to shake up their lineup before they can do the job. I wouldn't be surprised if they put out fake news just so they can say aha this is fake.

WND recently outed a liberal wag-hag professor on her deliberate fake news, so it is a news site that can get the job done. This is someone the liberal media was trusting to "expose" fake news.

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Meet leftist prof who wrote ‘hit list’ of ‘fake’ news sites

The lesson here is that you can't trust the libs to be watchmen for fake news because they put out the fake news. They also need to be sued like this assistant professor for libel.
 
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